8 outstanding images of the planet Uranus: Blue-green giant

8 outstanding images of the planet Uranus

Blue-green giant

Uranus is the seventh planet from the sun in our solar system. This giant ball of gas and liquid is about four times as large as Earth, and it's covered by methane clouds. It is believed that Uranus is covered in ammonia and water oceans surrounding a rocky core believed to be the size of Earth. In 1986, Voyager 2 passed by the planet, illuminating the blue-green gas giant as never before. (Text: Katherine Butler)